New Economics Forum

There has been a steady trickle of important PP-relevant analyses in recent weeks. Here are just two of them. First, the TUC shows how the gender pay gap is biggest for women in their 50s, at about £8500 per year, or £85000 over the decade. This is a powerful reminder that we need to look at these effects over the whole of the working life. Of course much of the gap derives from the point at which women have children. For mothers in their 50s the gap is 42%, and so the crucial remedies are better childcare provision and parental leave, with encouragement for men to share child-rearing responsibilities. But…